Once again Dallas came up with 2 correct decisions, the “Muir” effect continues… we shouldn't underestimate the impact Brendan has had on the whole VAR process.
Next should be war on the linemen, that one yesterday should be cancelled, no flag for Raskin offside, instant flag for Maeda in build up to Idah goal, both wildly wrong !!
Officiating frustrating again and then this tho not unusual
I'm not one for going in on officials but the linesman did have a mare. The interesting thing about that is when Collum does his VAR reviews we never really hear them talk about a linesman making a clear error. The focus is always the ref and the VAR.
VAR has been a hot topic on here. I'm fine with VAR tbh, just not a fan of how it has been setup in any league. That being said, on Sunday I guess we have to be a little thankful for it, as without it the Raskin goal stands and the Idah goal is chopped off..
I’m sure I heard in commentary Rodger’s wasn’t happy with Engels for short corner. Scales does well to get back at Dessers but, tackles with his left instead of right
The thing is nothing about how they were countering us from deep was chaos. If you watch back the goal and and the chance that leads to Igamane getting into our box you will see quite clear moves from them, that we don't really try to interrupt. The chaos was with us because we weren't getting enough pressure on and defensively we were having to be re-active. Had we killed those situations at source, maybe accepting a yellow card then you allow the team to get back it's shape and defend in a pro-active manner. We obviously can't stop it every time, but the 2 examples above for me where ones that we could have stopped.
The obvious situation where they do actively look to create chaos versus us or other better teams is when they get into areas to put balls into the box. They then use a Basketball style tactic of "crashing the board". Which is basically a instruction to get as many bodies in and around the box so the chance of a high recovery or putting pressure on defenders increases significantly. That's when you see moments like Hagi nearly getting in to follow up on the great save from Sinisalo.
Great stuff Ross….
Once again Dallas came up with 2 correct decisions, the “Muir” effect continues… we shouldn't underestimate the impact Brendan has had on the whole VAR process.
Next should be war on the linemen, that one yesterday should be cancelled, no flag for Raskin offside, instant flag for Maeda in build up to Idah goal, both wildly wrong !!
Officiating frustrating again and then this tho not unusual
60% possession 18 fouls = us
40% possession 9 fouls = them
I'm not one for going in on officials but the linesman did have a mare. The interesting thing about that is when Collum does his VAR reviews we never really hear them talk about a linesman making a clear error. The focus is always the ref and the VAR.
VAR has been a hot topic on here. I'm fine with VAR tbh, just not a fan of how it has been setup in any league. That being said, on Sunday I guess we have to be a little thankful for it, as without it the Raskin goal stands and the Idah goal is chopped off..
I’m sure I heard in commentary Rodger’s wasn’t happy with Engels for short corner. Scales does well to get back at Dessers but, tackles with his left instead of right
Good piece, it appears we are so well drilled that anything out of the expected causes us massive problems
The parts about our set up in transition is spot on. They essentially play chaos ball and we hate it
The thing is nothing about how they were countering us from deep was chaos. If you watch back the goal and and the chance that leads to Igamane getting into our box you will see quite clear moves from them, that we don't really try to interrupt. The chaos was with us because we weren't getting enough pressure on and defensively we were having to be re-active. Had we killed those situations at source, maybe accepting a yellow card then you allow the team to get back it's shape and defend in a pro-active manner. We obviously can't stop it every time, but the 2 examples above for me where ones that we could have stopped.
The obvious situation where they do actively look to create chaos versus us or other better teams is when they get into areas to put balls into the box. They then use a Basketball style tactic of "crashing the board". Which is basically a instruction to get as many bodies in and around the box so the chance of a high recovery or putting pressure on defenders increases significantly. That's when you see moments like Hagi nearly getting in to follow up on the great save from Sinisalo.